Canada

Quebec, Cree leaders sign deal as other Indigenous groups protest across Canada

MONTREAL - Quebec and Cree leaders are announcing the first steps of a wide-ranging 30-year plan to further develop the province's northern territory together. Premier Francois Legault told ...

Feb 17, 2020

Wet'suwet'en and B.C. government have been talking Aboriginal title for a year

VANCOUVER - As cabinet ministers broker urgent meetings over rail blockades in support of hereditary chiefs in northern British Columbia, a series of negotiations over the Wet'suwet'en Nation's l...

Feb 17, 2020

Home-school official tells trial Jewish education rigorous but only for boys

MONTREAL - The head of a Jewish home-schooling association is telling a Montreal courtroom that the rigorous Talmudic education offered by the Hasidic community prepares a child for any possible caree...

Feb 17, 2020

New Brunswick premier admits 'gaps' in scrapped plan for overnight ER closures

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says criticism of his government's decision to close emergency rooms overnight in six community hospitals exposed serious gaps in the plan an...

Feb 17, 2020

Quebecois couple on quarantined cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus

MONTREAL - An elderly Quebecois couple from Gatineau, Que., aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, their daughter said on Sat...

Feb 17, 2020

Study finds 'stunning' lack of research into women's heart health

OTTAWA - A new review of the existing research into women's cardiovascular disease has uncovered what the authors call a "stunning" lack of information about how women are affected. The review wa...

Feb 17, 2020

Trial of Quebec entertainer Eric Salvail hears testimony of sexual assault

MONTREAL - The trial of Quebec media star Eric Salvail opened today with testimony from a former co-worker who said Salvail cornered him, exposed himself and tried to force hi...

Feb 17, 2020

A timeline of some Incident Response Group meetings

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting today with the secretive Incident Response Group, a cabinet committee whose exact membership is kept under wraps. They're set to discuss the ongoing anti-...

Feb 17, 2020

Minister reports 'modest progress' after blockade talks with First Nation

TYENDINAGA, Ont. - Hours of talks between the federal government and representatives of the Mohawk First Nation ended with "modest progress" Saturday evening, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller ...

Feb 17, 2020

Ottawa eases speed restrictions imposed after Saskatchewan derailment

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau is easing speed restrictions placed on certain trains following a derailment in Saskatchewan earlier this month that spilled 1.2 million litres of crude oil an...

Feb 17, 2020